Thursday, October 04, 2007

Elephant alas

1.a strange tale I tell to theepray you pull up a chair and seehow in ancient times a fable came to passwild story of an elephant and a lassmarriage of man and beastplease come and join in the feast

2.How did the elephant-god grow inside this one?many noble men came and had their fun,leaving slippery seeds tucked deep insideto celebrate their human bridebut elephants in blue and graycame stealthily into the fray

3.elephants all night and daywith noses long that sure did swaya quilt of wrinkled skin and toes a path of peanut shells, god knowselephants did duck and dartwhile dancing into her heart

4.when her babe was due be bornat four a.m. she was shornprayed Ganesh a solemn vowhelp me to embrace this creature nowhuge crowds gathered outside to seethe dazzling birth, at once, of thee

5.dawn bled a crimson light causing everyone a terrible frightdrunken men that had appeared quite tamewere wild and then became inhumane elephants in blue and tanwere lurking close at hand

6.bellowed through his long pink noseburst her bedroom door with that hosethe crowd swelled and a few did jeermany still toasting with a beerelephants quite bold did daregallop upon the peopled square

7.a hush descended over the air baby rose from his birth chairman and beast stood eye to earthen came the stink of human fearelephants in blue and redwhere weeping tears of dread

8.all were kneeling with their heads bowed lowtwo a breast in a neat long rowbaby’s pink trunk wrapped round his mother’s waisthe suckled with a lusty hastethe evening star was drawing nearbawdy songs broke out for more beer

9.my tale of course has a darker sidehumans trampled when they tried to ridethe pink elephants that did appearwhen finally consumed was all the beermourning elephants in black and grayfiled out of town in terribly quiet way

10.by noon the troops had ralliedguns and bombs and fear were talliedthrough the town the church bells rangsongs of beer no longer sang“I knew they’d kill us!” they did chantmother’s ears burned to hear such a rant

11.drums began to beatthe sun turned up the heata thousand names elephants did call“gods save us from this demonic fallwe had gathered to celebrate human body with elephant pate”

12.Elephants in meditations wokeas gods laughter loudly brokethoughts of war all fell away“We have lost the heart to kill today!”elephants in yellow and whiteled a parade of humane delight

13.upon a lotus of mothers milksongs of peace where the ilkGanesh’s father Shiva did appeareveryone ordered some near beerElephants adorned with flowers brightridden by humans all through the night